Ernesto Arlocti

Ernesto Arlocti (1907-1975) was an Italian submarine captain during World War II.

Biography
Ernesto Arlocti was born in 1907 in Civitavecchia, Lazio, Italy. Arlocti entered the Royal Italian Navy under Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, and Arlocti rose to the rank of Captain in 1940. That year, he was given command of the sub Napolitano, and he took part in the Battle of the Atlantic against the Allied Powers. Arlocti torpedoed Allied merchant shipping in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean until the September 1943 armistice, when Italy allied with their former enemies. Arlocti was interned in Alexandria, Egypt by the United Kingdom after the armistice, and Arlocti and his crew were allowed to return home in 1945 after the end of World War II. He died in 1975 in Rome of lung cancer.